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Ringfort - rath

Kilpatrick (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilpatrick, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilpatrick (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.53991, -7.51061
SMR number
WM018-055----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the NW side of a high ridge, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork which has been truncated from SW-W-N by a townland boundary running NNE-SSW. Enclosing element of monument is not depicted on NW side of townland boundary. Monument intersected at SW by a field boundary running NW-SE.
Monument described in the late 1970s as a partially levelled semicircular-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m; basal Wth 4.6m; Wth at top 0.7m) visible from N-E and levelled from E-S. A field fence running NW-SE across the SW quadrant incorporates the perimeter from S-SW. The monument is truncated at NW by a modern field fence running NE-SW. There is no evidence of the enclosing element of the monument on NW side of this boundary. There are vague traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE across the NE half of the interior. Monument is visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark defined by a light brown-green area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 04 February 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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